How to install Python package from source on Windows

[Chris Angelico]

On Fri, May 26, 2017 at 6:16 AM, Deborah Swanson
<python at deborahswanson.net> wrote:
>> Anyway I can confirm that VS is not required for installing
>> and using pip on XP, nor is it required for recordclass,
>> since it's available in wheel form.
>
> See my tracebacks earlier in this thread. You confirmed that it works in
> XP SP3, only.

Doesn't matter whether VS works on SP3 but not SP2 - the point was
that pip works without VS.

ChrisA